Croatian Film Commission Gives ‘Game Of Thrones’ The Green Light For Its Controversial Nude Scene

There was a bit of a kerfuffle on the Game of Thrones set in Croatia last week. As you make recall, the Croatian film commission had objected to a particularly important scene in the upcoming fifth season because it features a very naked Cersei Lannister in a fictional Westeros church, which would require the show to film a very naked Lena Headey inside a very real church in the deeply religious town of Dubrovnik, Croatia.

By order of the Croatian film commission, Cersei … played by Lena Headey … now hath the green light to walk the streets of Dubrovik in the nude — as long as she never sets foot in a church. […]

We’re told the film commissioners changed their initial ruling … upon realizing how much pleasantry “Game of Thrones” doth bring the townspeople. It also brings in a lot of copper pennies.

It must have been weird to be HBO’s lawyer in this negotiation. “The church is off the table, we get that. How about the streets? No? What about just two streets? One street? Come on, Ivan. You’re breaking my stones here. Okay, how about this: we shoot it in a fake church on our lot, then we use one of your streets, but it’s a side street, and then we spring for pizza? Yeah? Excellent. Always a pleasure, pal.”

I would be pretty pissed off by the spoilersome nature of this post if I hadn’t read the books. This will likely be one of the most memorable moments of the season and its a shame if people are going to get the heads up from posts like these

Counterpoint: The headline, which people had to click on to read the text, pretty clearly implies that some discussion about the filming of the upcoming season is about to take place. Avoiding that information was as simple as not clicking.

People don’t really think this is a spoiler do they? “Cersei takes her clothes off” is not a spoiler. WHY Cersei takes her clothes off would be a spoiler, and the article says nothing about that.

I do know what scene they’re talking about and I’m surprised they’re getting to it next season. They are really blowing off Feast for Crows, (no objection), and I suspect all of us book readers will be behind the show watchers by mid-season.

I’m in love with Lena Headey and have always been very grateful for her past nude scenes. But she IS Cersei Lannister, n it would just be fuckin awesome to see Naked Cersei.. Jaime Lannister is one of my favorite characters, but please please leave him outta this one. The whole incest angle makes me go midnight-to-six